I broadly agree with the message in this comic but… Isn’t the 664 billionaires thing a bit misleading? It ignores all the inflation and population growth that has happened in the past 30 years.

Personally, I think that the discussion around this will evolve as the news spreads, but I agree with Robert on this one. Sure, X/Twitter has become a less welcoming place than before, but shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn’t a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.

Nah, I think I’m cool if Debian doesn’t respect the input of Nazi sympathisers.

Anyone got a good tutorial/guide fir SystemD?

Figure I may as well try to wrap my head around it if it’s supposedly going to murder me in my sleep or whatever.

This is why you backup your Firefox profile, kids.

“I might need it later”.

It’s possible for an upgrade to break things and leave your system in an unusable state or cause your data to be lost.

However, that could happen at any time with no warning. Your hard drive could break, your charger could cause a short, your laptop could get stolen. If you have any files you don’t want to lose, I’d strongly recommend you set up a backup asap.

In terms of whether to actually upgrade, Mint 20.3 stops receiving security updates in April so you should probably upgrade to 21 sometime before then.

The control group was 37 people and the asd people were all recruited from the same place and were the same age (so genetic diversity is a concern).

I don’t really trust the findings of this paper because of the same size. The article also leads with the “autism diagnosises have risen in recent years” dogwhistle…

I’ve played this game and it’s pretty fun.

But can we not do the “it’s not Pokémon, wink wink” thing? It has a very different feel to Pokémon and equating all creature capturing games to being “pokemon clones” does a great disservice to the genre.

He’s just into war reenactment and also expressing that his heart went out to him (/s).

Android backs up data to the cloud. If the phone breaks or gets stolen, you don’t need to recover data from it - you can just pull it from Google’s servers.

In addition, people tend to not treat their phones as “permanent storage”. The concept of losing or breaking their phone is probably more clear, so they make sure to back it up in some way to the cloud or their desktop.

Also, it’s much more likely for a phone to be stolen than a laptop or desktop.

There is a major downside to encryption: If you forget your password or your tpm fails and you’ve not backed things up, then that data is gone forever. If someone doesn’t have anything incriminating or useful to theives on their device, the easier reparability might justify not enabling it.

I encrypt my home folder and Windows install just in case someone breaks into my house and steals my computer. Super annoying entering my password each boot though.

He’s trying to say “I’m attention seeking, look at me!”.

If Alice is able to send “algorithm updates” through a secure and untraceable medium, why not just use that to send a unique email address that Bob can send messages to?

If the links between participants is to remain secret, why not have a big ledger shared between a thousand people that any of them can send unaddressed messages to? Bob would send a message encrypted with Alice’s public key and it gets mixed into the ledger. Alice then pulls the entire ledger and then decrypts any messages encrypted by her public key.

I don’t see why there is a need to accept the inherrent unreliably of an llm to solve this problem.

It’s actually gotten a lot better over the last few years; Valve has been putting in a lot of work into making gaming “just work” through Steam. It’s still a bit jank, but honestly all OSes are a bit jank.

If anyone in this thread is interested, I’d recommend giving Linux Mint a go. There’s nothing really to lose.

Anyway, I’m done shilling Linux so I’ll let you get back to your Simpsoning. :P

It’s a common thing with every game that has a significant element of random chance: Humans are just bad at understanding probabilities.

I think a lot of game design philosophy actually suggest that you should fudge probabilities to “feel” right. Gsmes like Fire Emblem and (I think) xcom actually lie about the probabilities and skew them to the extremes because that’s just how people “feel” is correct.

Anyway, Balatro doesn’t do any of that. The cards you are offered are entirely deterministic based on the seed, and don’t depend on what cards you buy or skip. In each ante, rewards are in a specific order which isn’t changed by anything in game.

I think the only luck manipulation it does is, if you are playing on gold stake, it will reroll the seed until the first legendary Joker is one you don’t have a gold seal on.

Windows XP. It does what you want with very little nonsense, and can require a bit of technical finagling.

As someone else also going through depression, your anxiety demon telling you all this is just an overreaction. When you have anxiety, your brain is always looking for threats and magnifying them. If you’re thinking “dies this make me abusive?” That’s usually a good sign that you have the compassion required to not be.

If you have the means to do so, I would recommend therapy. It’s a good place to talk about your worries in an environment where you aren’t worried about burdening friends.

Last project I worked on is a Sonic-like game. Didn’t get much done, just constant fiddling to get all the physics working.

Before that, was working on an RPG, which has a ton of fiddly menus I need to make…

Sadly, I tend to stop working on things during bouts of depression, and pick up something new later, so I’ve not really finished anything or even got to the point of making content…

I wish we could go back to the days when gamedev was happening on DeviantArt or Newgrounds and it was just a bunch of kids doing fun and slightly cringe stuff. ;_;

I’d be very surprised if this is true. Adding a D pad and extra button at the last minute and redesigning the controller entirely feels a bit of a stretch. And it looks a bit strange having a dedicated “arm” just for a single button, especially if it’s the start button (rather than a hypothetical “D” button.

Edit: I didn’t realize there was an actual real photo of one linked as the post, rather than the blurry one in the description thingie. I don’t know what to think.